[PATCH] [DBus] Add support for vendor specific methods on dbus

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Nov 15 08:58:19 PST 2015


On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 04:50:58AM +0000, Avichal Agarwal wrote:
> Representation of data in hex-form is quite more understandable because there can be multiple vendor elements.
> If array of bytes  is used then binary data will be sent , I agree it will remove hex to binary conversion code.
> But in case of VendorElemGet , output will come as binary data .
> 
> If you want we will modify that.

I'm not sure I understand how a hexdump would be any more understandable
than binary data regardless of how many vendor elements there are. The
existing examples that use IE(s) in the D-Bus interface use binary and I
think that this new addition should be modified to do same.
 
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